What rule was broken? The RC determined that there was at least 5 knots of wind. Therefore the race stands.
Now if the protesting teams had some sort of concrete proof other than "the water wasn't moving and, uhhh, there were bugs" then bring it to the table and I'll be more than willing to see it your way.
However, no such evidence was presented, therefore I'm calling shenanigans on this crap. Just because you blew up a race doesn't mean that it wasn't legitimate.
Actually... The judges determined that RC did NOT determine wind speed at the start of the race. Last wind reading was taken 15 minutes prior at the start which was recalled. Starting line was adjusted due to a big wind shift. Mark is a great PRO and an honest man with enough integrity to go to a hearing and tell the truth. And the truth was that no reading was taken at the start of the race nor could he say if it was 5 kts at that time because he simply did not try to determine it. I don't know if the race would have been thrown out if he claimed there to be 5kts without using instruments (licking the finger, sticking the tongue out into the wind or whatever) but it doesn't seem to matter since there was no reading taken at all.
Someone claims that there was 6-10kts during that race? I want what they are smoking!
